Tag: history
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Liberalism vs Your Belly Button
The best argument against modern liberalism? Your belly button. Why? You belly button is a reminder that you began life connected to others. You are not a sovereign, autonomous, detached individual. Your very existence came in and through community. To be is to be related. You are not a free floating atom. You are a…
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Medieval Myths
These notes are based on my sermon from November 6, 2005. Audio available here: It is useful and fitting to reflect on the saints who have gone before us. This reflection leads us especially to the saints of the Middle Ages and to the many myths that surround the medieval church. While the medieval era…
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Christian Politics: Reformed Political Theology, Women’s Suffrage, Puritan Theonomy
“Accordingly, in every state sanctified to God capital punishment must be ordered for all who have dared to injure religion, either by introducing a false and impious doctrine about the Worship of God or by calling people away from the true worship of God; for all who blaspheme the name of God and His solemn…
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The Civil Rights Industry
No doubt that there were many racial sins committed in American society during the Jim Crow era. But whatever good things the civil rights movement may have accomplished in its day, it’s fundamental purpose was to make America communist. It has not quite succeeded, but it certainly hasn’t failed. As Jeremy Carl has said, the…
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Christian Imperialism
Given our action in Venezuela, perhaps it’s time for Christian nationalism to give way to Christian colonialism, or even Christian imperialism. There have been Christian colonizers and empires in history, just as there have been Christian nations. A good case can be made that when Christian nations colonized (and at least to some degree, Christianized)…
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Immigration, Identity Politics, and the Way Forward
Overview on the immigration issue, identity politics, and the “Christian nationalist” way forward: ADDENDUM: “But a lot of Roman Catholics from South America came over the border so this isn’t about Christianity.” That misses the bigger picture. When the border was wide open, ANYONE could come in. So, yes, that included some South American RCs.…
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Free Trade vs. Free Markets: Will the Real Capitalism Please Stand Up?
Many people, especially young people, who critique capitalism have no idea what capitalism is. Capitalism is just freedom in the economic sphere. It’s just freely buying and selling. The only way to set a just price is to find one the buyer and seller agree upon. If someone with power – the state – tells…
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Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement — A Few Notes and Questions
These are some notes from a while back, prepared for a discussion of Caldwell’s book: This is a compelling book. It’s straight forward and ruthless in its analysis. I thought his assessment of Reagan was harsh but probably fair overall – Reagan had some great rhetoric about limited government but did not have the nerve to…
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The Folly of Women in Combat: A Parable of Moral and Cultural Decline
The drive to place women in combat is not an advance of civilization but a mark of its decay. It reveals a society that no longer knows what a woman is, what a man is, or why those differences once mattered. The story begins in 1978, when female sailors sued the U.S. Navy for the…
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Civil Fathers
Civil magistrates are fathers to their people. But what kind of fathers are they? If the citizenry is irresponsible and undisciplined, he has to be a controlling father – usually some kind of tyrant, because they people cannot govern themselves. The citizens are like little children who need someone to do everything for them. Think…
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